BELIEFS (Who knows where this will end up)

HI. Having read Dax Moy's Blog about beliefs and challenging yourself and people around you to actually live by and spread your beliefs, without neccessarily forcing them on to other people, living by what you have faith in and not by trying to live the way you think others would like you to live. This moved me and really got me thinking about doing the same, then my good friend Charlotte, www.charlotteord.com, wrote hers, which actually brought a tear and a smile to my face. So now I will try my best (but nothing as moving as the 2 i've read) Throughout my life I have hopefully always tried to treat people with respect and trust, something passed on to me by both parents. Not forcibly, but by the way they treated people, which i think as a kid you pick up on, either good or bad habits, manners and respect are something i feel is sadly missing from a lot of the world now. I guess i also believe in what some people would call 'karma' as often when i've maybe missed out on an oppurtunity to be good or bad lets say, and through choice, laziness, ignorance or some other self imposed reason, i have chosen not to do the good, something bad or 'unlucky' seems to happen to me. I BELIEVE if you look for easy answers, take short cuts, turn your back when someone needs help, all these things will actually lead to more work, more unhappiness. There are no shortcuts to anything worth having as they say. T o strive not to be better than anyone else, but to be the best Craig Lowe i can be, will be good enough for me, hopefully helping family, friends, strangers, clients, whoever i meet along the way to be the best 'them' thhay can be. A film that always springs to mind when i thinking of these things is 'Pay It Forward' not because of it being a good film, but the principles behind it, if you do someone a favour, don't neccessarily think they owe you, they can do a favour for someone else and then they pass that on and so on and so on. So i guess I BELIEVE you'll get to where you want to go, by helping, trusting, being honest (especially with my memory, lies don't work). No idea if all that was what i started off writing about, but done now ??!!! And yes you may of guessed, enter button still broke ! Take care Craig

12 DAYS OF FITNESS

Leading Fitness Experts Give The Gift Of Health To World With Biggest Ever Health and Fitness Giveaway This Festive SeasonOn Wednesday, December 10, Dax Moy and over 250 of the world's top fitness professionals will open the doors on the World’s largest ever health and fitness gift-giving, set to generate positive health for over 500,000 people this ChristmasThe program, called ’12 days of fitness’ initially began when the UK's leading fitness professional, Dax Moy, wanted to express his gratitude to his clients and offered them a gift a day for 12 consecutive days as his twist of the 12 Days of Christmas.Last year Moy shared this idea with fellow fitness professional Pat Rigsby and they expanded the 12 Days of Fitness to include not only their own clients but to the world at large and gave fitness gifts to over 200,000 people who signed up at the site at www.12daysoffitness.com.This year, with the help of 250 of the world's top personal trainers, nutritionists, therapists and specialist fitness experts, the 12 days of fitness is set to become the biggest fitness gift giveaway in history with expected downloads of over 500,000 between the 10th and 22nd of December. "There’s never been another health event like this, where so many people stand to benefit from the expertise of true professionals for free” says Moy who has been working flat out to make this year’s 12 days a success.“Fitness professionals from around the globe have contributed hundreds of e-books, reports, videos, meal plans and other free gifts in their hope of making 2009 the year that anyone, regardless or their location, financial situation or past failures, can finally reach their fitness goals and make those New Year's Resolutions a reality once and for all.”Perhaps the best part of the 12 Days of Fitness giveaway is that regardless of a persons health or fitness goals, there are going to be gifts specifically designed to help them achieve success."We've received gifts designed for busy mom's, elite athletes, bodybuilders, back pain sufferers and pretty much anyone else you can imagine covering everything from fat loss to rehabilitation and everything in between.There literally will be something for everyone this year and all of it free, making it, without a doubt, one of the most important gifts anyone will receive this year. After all, what’s more important than health?”The 12 days of gift giving starts December 10th but those interested are urged to visit www.12daysoffitness.com right away to sign up for their free gifts.Once enrolled, participants will get a daily email telling them how to access each of the new gifts that are being added each day as well as a reminder on how to access previous gifts.To guarantee a healthy start to 2009, simply visit www.12daysoffitness.com today.

Never Too Good To Learn More

Hi. Had good week at gym, most of my clients are well on track and loving all the new functional exercises, I've been adding. My training is going really well too, well back on the motivated, inspired road. Mostly thanks to searching out, inspirational people and hearing/reading what they have to say. Its amazing no matter how good, motivated, successful, happy you think you are, you sgould never stop learning or want to learn, to make you a better person. My friend Charlotte - www.charlotteord.com has been an inspiration over last few weeks and is well on track to reaching both her short and long term goals- Go the girl !! Will get back on the website work this week, been slacking a bit on that. Also my class of Level 2 Gym Instructors finish next weekend, so good luck to them. Thats it for now I think.

Just back from day, putting my class of hopefully soon to be Gym Instructors, through a mock practical assessment AND a mock theory exam !! Boy they did way better than I expected, amazing how much they have taken in, in just 3 weekends as wella sholding down full time jobs, Go the guys. Its so good to be teaching guys who are wanting to come into the Fitness Industry. I remember (vaguely) how new and daunting it seemed, all those bones, muscles, muscle actions, origins, insertions, fast twitch, slow twitch, think you get the point now !! But I am very much trying to teach them, while using as much practical as possible, this is, after all, where the action is, so to speak. Too many guys are out there now teaching bad technique, with bad attitudes, hopefully these new guys, will be open to change and thinking for themselves. Trying things, listening to people who know, always learning, improving. Without losing the love they have for fitness right now. CRAIG P.S Sorry about no paragraphs, return button is busted on laptop

Also check out top trainer and friend Charlotte's website and blog for top functional advice http://www.charlotteord.com/

First Blog !!

Hi. Just thought I'd jump on the blog bandwagon. Not that anyone is following it yet ?!?! Will try to keep my Personal Trainer Adventures all up to date. Hopefully throw in some advice and tell you about workouts and other stuff I get up to !! Be back soon